bby_608453 - ANDRONIKOS I KOMNENOS Tetarteron
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Type : Tetarteron
Date: c. 1183-1185
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier bien centré. Beaux bustes à l’usure régulière. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste de la Vierge Marie de face, nimbée, vêtu du pallium et du maphorium, le Christ de face.
Obverse legend : MR - QU.
Obverse translation : (Mère de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste couronné d’Andronicus Ier à mi-corps debout de face, vêtu du scaramangion et du sagion, tenant le labarum de la main droite et le globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : ANDRO[NIKOS].
Reverse translation : (Manuel despote).
Historical background
ANDRONIKOS I KOMNENOS
(09/1183-12/09/1185)
Andronicus I succeeded Alexis II Comnenus after the assassination of Mary of Antioch, Manuel I's wife. Andronicus was a cousin of Manuel from the Comnenus family. He had led an adventurous life and came to the empire in his sixties. In August 1185, the Normans seized Thessalonica and the mob massacred Andronicus I on September 12 in Constantinople. The emperor's reign had been short and violent.
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